Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND TflE FATHERS. 85
ceiving these, and comparing them with the
copy which Cecilianus had brought from that
Council,
they were found to correspond in every
particular. This was the more remarkable,
as the Alexandrian copy had been sent originally
from Rome by Pope Marcus, at the request
of the bishops of Egypt. The African bishops
immediately informed Boniface, who had succeeded
Pope Zosim.us,
copies,
of this agreement of the
and the dispute was dropped.
In the pontificate of Celestine, however, it
was again renewed.
Apiarius, after his restoration,
was convicted of the most scandalous conduct,
and on this account excommunicated anew.
This produced another appeal to Rome ; and
Pope Celestine not
only declared him innocent,
and admitted him into his communion without
an examination of witnesses,
but sent his legate
along with him into Africa, with orders to see
him reinstated.
On their arrival, a general Council was called,
and Apiarius summoned to attend. He accordingly
appeared with the legate, who insisted,
that as he had been declared innocent at Rome,
he should be received into communion. To
this the African bishops replied, that, having
been condemned among them, his innocence
must also appear, before that could take place.
They therefore proceeded to his trial, which
lasted three w^hole days. During this time, he
defended